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Govt remains undecided on Agus-Pulangui privatization PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III said the decision on whether to privatize Agus-Pulangui hydro power plants could not be done with a click of a thumb. The President said the privatization issue “is not biglaan,” when asked during his visit on Monday to grace the People’s Organizations (POs) Congress in line with Department of Agriculture’s Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP) at the Grand Regal Hotel in Davao City. “We need to study everything the pros and cons, the financial state of Napocor if it is earning or otherwise,” he said. He said there are numerous technicalities needed to study to come up with a concrete stand on Agus-Pulangui hydro power plants. He clarified however that the study is ongoing amid the strong opposition raised by Mindanaons on the privatization matter. Aquino said the proposal that reached him is no privatization of AgusPulangui to investors who are not Mindanaons. “Ang nakarating sa akin na recommendation is no to privatization that means it will remain with Napocor,” he said elaborating that to his interpretation the proposal is privatization of Agus-Pulangui for purely Mindanaon investors. He also cited the 30 percent disallowable ownership by a single corporation as provided in the EPIRA law should also be considered if UNDECIDED/PAGE 9
Police press raps vs. 136 rebels in Surigao
WEATHER UPDATE INTERTROPICAL Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate winds blowing from the Southeast to South will prevail throughout the archipelago and the coastal waters will be slight to moderate.
By ARJAY FELICILDA, Correspondent
SOURCE : PAGASA
PISTON urges PNoy to stop enforcing revised LTO fines By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga
BUTUAN City––The Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper and Opereytors Nationwide has urged President Aquino, Department of Transportation and Communications Secretary Mar Roxas and Land Transportation Office Assistant Secretary Virginia Torres to stop the implementation of DOTC Department Order No. 2008-39 in ac-
cordance with the decision of the Baguio Regional Trial Court declaring the order “unconstitutional” and “null and void.” D OTC D e p ar t me nt Order No. 2008-39 which imposes a revised schedule of LTO fines and penalties for traffic and administrative violations has been the subject of criticisms especially from the trans-
port sector which said it was issued on August 31, 2008 during former Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration neither with consultation from motorists and transport groups nor from the legislature. According to PISTON national president George San Mateo, he hoped the DOTC and LTO will respect the Baguio RTC Branch 5 decision and warned his STOP/PAGE 9
THE Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Region 13 has filed charges of robbery-in-band and arson against 136 alleged leaders and combatants of the New People’s Army (NPA) tagged in the October 2011 attack on Platinum Group Metal Corporation (PGMC) in Claver, Surigao del Norte. Police Supt. Bowenn Joey Masauding, chief of CIDG in Region 13, said the charges were brought by P/Sr. Inspector Gerson Soliven of CIDG-Surigao del Norte before the office of Surigao City Prosecutor Jesse Rey Silvosa, May 7 this year, and docketed under NPS number XIII-06-INV-12K-112 and XIII-06-INV-12K-113. Charged were Jorge Madlos, alias Ka Oris, spokesperson of the NPA Mindanao Committee; Myrna Sularte, alias Maria Malaya, Iyay, Bingbing and Imang, secretary of the NPA North Eastern Mindanao Committee; Nando Robuca, alias Putol; Rommel Salinas, alias Mark, Artem and Doming; Pablo Logatiman, alias Boni, Mike and Bedo; Edilborte Reponte Dabal, alias Bong and Waco; Isagani Madlos, alias Edron; and 10 other ‘rebel’ leaders identified only as Bea, Daday, Rudy, Nayan, Grace, Liam, Owen/Jong, Joseph and Cris/Tomas. Soliven said the accused were positively identified by witnesses being the ones who led the PGMC attack in the afternoon of October 3, 2011. POLICE/PAGE 9
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